Small Business

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October 10, 2019 

Mileage Tracking Feature Now Available in QuickBooks Online

The days of clients giving you dog-eared pages with unintelligible scrawls of mileage driven for business is now a thing of the past. Manual, written logs are neither effective for automated workflow, nor are they necessarily accurate, especially if a client forgets to record their mileage right away and guesstimates it at a much later...…

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October 8, 2019 

Illinois Starts Two Sales Tax Amnesty Programs

Two tax amnesty programs have been established in Illinois by Public Act 101-0009: a general tax amnesty program administered by the Illinois Department of Revenue, and a franchise tax and license fees amnesty administered by the Secretary of State.

Gail Cole

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September 25, 2019 

Business Optimism Still Up, But Tariffs and Regulations Being Felt

According to the survey results, gathered via an online poll of 500 randomly selected business owners with 500 employees or less between August 1 and 13, business owners’ optimism is trending up in every area – including business outlook, ability to ...

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September 23, 2019 

Shortage in New Home Construction Expected to Persist

While home values have recovered since the Great Recession and, in many cases, surpassed their pre-recession peaks, single-family home construction activity has continued to languish. The rate of new housing starts will likely remain below historic ...

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September 18, 2019 

Companies Preparing for Recession Within 12-18 Months

A majority of respondents – 62% – believe a recession will happen within the next 18 months. Private companies are particularly worried that a recession lurks in the near term, with 39% anticipating a recession in the next 12 months.

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September 17, 2019 

BQE and Stripe Partner for ePayments

BQE Software Inc. and Stripe have partnered to help professional service firms get paid faster via online payment solution with automated posting to BQE Core accounting.